I'm going to make a start

I have a big problem with writing something that has more than likely been said by someone else. I’m referring here mainly to literary and film criticism, and to an extent genre screenwriting, although that is to be expected.

I’m fed up with sitting in a flat that has barely useable wi-fi the majority of the time because it doesn’t make you procrastinate less as you would think but actually makes it worse because as soon as you get a connection you end up watching a YouTube video and forget what you wanted to do in the first place which ends up wasting another twenty minutes of your time.

So here we have a blog we created with reasonable intention to do something useful with it. Except of course lack of wi-fi connectivity was forcing us to be very precise with how we went about running this blog.

Now I know this is a better excuse than any but I’ve decided to do something productive with it. When you come to think of it, if you’re sitting in a loft and have no internet and it’s freezing and it’s 11pm on a Saturday evening and you’re inside because you don’t know anyone in London and everything good is a hassle to get to or you are worried you are going to throw up on the Underground escalator on the way back then you’re basically picking out your desert discs. 

I’m not even trying to be funny here by insinuating that by ‘discs’ I mean DVDs because I actually don’t. If you watch a film in your living room or your bedroom or at the cinema when you look back on it you remember the experience of sitting there and being emotionally moved in some way. With music, on the other hand, you can almost tailor the experience like finding that one song that fits perfectly with your worst break-up at the time. Suddenly every time you hear the song again you feel yourself drop back very momentarily to that difficult time. You do things with and to music - it aspires you. Films, on the other hand, inspire you with admirable characters and stunning stories.

So I’m wondering what it’s like to listen to a film. More importantly, what can I do to tailor the experience? With video games I sometimes put on a film soundtrack in the background to give it that epic feeling and likewise with books I have in the past picked out a good album I haven’t previously listened to.

My plan is this, and if it works out relatively well I might even do it again. I've managed to find a full film on YouTube that I know only three things about:

1.) It's not goddamn awful (because...)

2.) It's about the drug and party scene back in '90s Britain.

3.) It stars John Simm

If you haven't guessed, the film is Human Traffic (1999) and the plan is to listen to it over a commute to and from work. I'll then watch the film, write up my review and give feedback on the whole experience instead of hastily writing anything else about what I expect from it right here, right now.

Film isn't about what you see, it's about how you see it.

(That's a quote Richard Ayoade would be proud of surely?)